Seattle Thanksgiving

My first thanksgiving in Seattle was spent at a coffee shop. All my friends were out of town for the holiday. I was living in a roominghouse in the U District and almost all my room-mates were gone. I walked down University Way looking for somewhere I could get a meal. At a coffee shop called The Pearl, the owners had put together a huge thanksgiving meal which they were giving away for whatever people could pay. There was quite a random and bedgraggled bunch of us, but the food was delicious.